Compensated emancipation:
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5100
http://www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org/inside.asp?ID=35&subjectID=3
Read ‘Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War’ by David Williams which refutes your nonsense of an undivided Confederacy. One of the reasons they lost the war was the fact that they were too busy fighting amongst themselves (and deserting in droves to join the Union army).
Re: Tyrant Lincoln closes down the New York World!!!
A hack journalist, looking to get rich in the gold market, conjured up a phony presidential proclamation – complete with a presidential seal and Lincoln’s sig – calling for a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, and announced a phony draft of 400,000 more men – and it was printed in the New York World. Gold shot up 10%. It was a fraud commited by a piece-of-shit scumbag opportunist, and Lincoln shut down the paper for a week. What would they do about this situation in libertarian fairyland? It was the only time Lincoln personally had a hand in shutting down a newspaper, although Butler and Burnside went over the line.
James Newcome, editor of the San Antonio (Texas) Alamo Express, wrote: ‘Is this still a land where liberty loves to dwell? Where freedom is not denied utterance? Where men are not to be persecuted for opinions sake? If it is, it would be well for those who differ with us to remember it.’ On April 17th he blamed the men of Charleston for starting the Civil War ‘upon the question of supplying sixty men (at Ft Sumter) with pork and beans for a few days.’ Less than a month later, with help from those glorious libertarians in the Confederate government, the Alamo Express had burned to the ground.
What about the Confederate government tossing William Brownlow, editor of the Knoxville Whig, into prison for writing: [The average Southern soldier], swearing and swaggering in every crowd he enters, that he will go out of the Union because he can’t get his rights, by having the privilege guaranteed to take slaves into the territories, when, in, fact, he does not own a Negro in the world, never did, and never will; and withal can’t get credit in any store in the country where he lives, for a wool hat or a pair of brogans!
Read ‘Lincoln and Civil Liberties’ and ‘The Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism’, both by Mark Neely Jr. The come back and explain how Lincoln was an evil tyrant and the good old libertarian Confederacy were A-OK. Newflash: They both had to put their foot down – as did the Founders during the Revolution. Jefferson Davis called for conscription before Lincoln. Jefferson Davis suspended habeas corpus. Jefferson Davis suppressed dissent. Both sides were fighting for national survival and they did what they felt had to be done to that end.
Re: The Union Army were butchers – and the glorious Confederates righteous gentleman warriors!
Lincoln was derided early in the war for being a pussy, a compromiser, for fighting the war ‘with a squirt gun filled with rose water’ and derided late in the war for being a tyrant, letting Sherman the Ogre run wild, and not compromising on the slavery issue and ending the war. So which is it? Was he a pussy or a tyrant? Why did he apparently have ‘the negro on his mind’ if he didn’t give a shit about blacks?
Not even going into the Confederates disgusting behavior toward black Union soldiers (such as impaling unarmed surrendering black Union soldiers on tent poles and lighting them on fire at Fort Pillow), the myth that the evil Yankees blazed a path through the South, raping and pillaging, and the Confederates tip-toed through the North is more laughable endlessly-recited Lost Cause bullshit. The Confederates rarely invaded the North – mostly because when they did their armies were badly damaged. When the Confederate army invaded Pennsylvania, for instance, they had no problem setting fire to Pennsylvania towns, looting stores, robbing banks ($28,000 from York, for example), and stripping the land of livestock, horses and food. Confederate scouting parties also rounded up all of the free blacks they could find during their invasions (most born free) and sent them south, claiming they were escaped slaves.
Re: Lincoln – along with the other antislavery politicians – supported voluntary colonization (Lincoln backed off after 1862) because they were evil and hated blacks.
In 1862 Lincoln consulted a black delegation on colonization. ‘Your race are suffering, in my judgement, the greatest wrong inflicted on any people.’ The legacy of that wrong in the form of discrimination, he feared, would prevent them ‘from being place on equality with the white race.’ His words proved completely accurate unless you read history books on Reconstruction approved by the Daughters of the Confederacy. (Personally, I would suggest ‘The Bloody Shirt: Terror After the Civil War’ by Stephen Budiansky.)
He didn’t believe white Southerners – or even most white Northerners – would live alongside free blacks on an equal basis. Unfortunately, he was correct.
He initially supported VOLUNTARY colonization; one of the reasons was so he had a bone to throw everyone – many Southerners wouldn’t live alongside free blacks, many Northerners didn’t want to go to war and get their arm shot off to free blacks, who would then move north and compete for jobs. He discarded his support of voluntary colonization after blacks were enlisted in the Union Army and Lincoln continually talked up their performance in battle to the Northern public.
In 1863, Frederick Douglass visited the White House to discuss the treatment of black Union soldiers. ‘I was never more quickly or more completely put at ease in the presence of a great man than in that of Abraham Lincoln’, wrote Douglass, who praised Lincolns ‘entire freedom from popular prejudice against the colored race.’ Lincoln was the first prominent white American ‘who in no single instance reminded me of the difference between himself and myself, of the difference of color.’
Whats funny is Douglass personally knew most of the hardcore abolitionists so lionized by the modern day Far Left, yet Lincoln was the first prominent white American who in no single instance reminded Douglass of any racial difference between them. Yikes, he sounds like Adolf Hitler!
Lincoln also called Douglass back to the White House in 1864 to confer with him on a plan to sneak slaves north to freedom in case the Union lost the war. Very strange for Lincoln to be dealing with these ‘trivial’ matters in the midst of a devastating civil war considering how much a hated blacks and all…
He could have rescinded the Emancipation Proclamation, ended the war and ensured his reelection. (As he wrote, ‘There have been men who have proposed to me to return to slavery the black warriors of Port Hudson and Olustee to their masters to conciliate the South. I shall be damned in time and in eternity for so doing.’) So he didn’t. He had ‘the negro on his mind’ and it pissed off the Copperheads and a large part of the Northern public.
There is an oft-quoted, out-of-context quote here from the Lincoln/Stephen Douglas debates in racist Southern Illinois with Lincoln responding to Douglas painting him as a black-loving abolitionist (unpopular in those days for an office-seeker to be labeled with such a tag), yet curiously nothing about the last speech Lincoln ever gave calling for black suffrage. (The speech John Wilkes Booth heard, and mtters, ‘That means [negro] citizenship…that is the last speech he will ever give.’
As far as the 13th Amendment passing after his death – completely irrelevant. Lincoln was responsible for it, forced it through a reluctant Congress and made several backroom deals to make it a reality.
